In this paper we study the Optical Burst Switching (OBS) paradigm for the support of the TCP flows in an All Optical Network (AON). We analyze the TCP send rate, i.e. the amount of data sent per time unit, taking into account of: i) the burst assembly mechanism, called burstification process; ii) the burst loss events inside the OBS network. The goals of… (More)

In this paper we analyze the challenging problem of energy saving in IP networks. A novel network-level strategy based on a modification of current link-state routing protocols, such as OSPF, is proposed; according to this strategy, IP routers are able to power off some network links during low traffic periods. The proposed solution is a three-phases… (More)

—In this paper, we propose an architecture for a buffer-less packet optical switch employing the wavelength dimension for contention resolution. The optical packet switch is equipped with tunable wavelength converters shared among the input lines. An analytical model is proposed in order to determine the number of converters needed to satisfy prefixed… (More)

This paper deals with a strategy to save energy in an IP network during low traffic hours allowing a subset of IP router interfaces to be put in sleep mode by means of an Energy Aware Routing (EAR) strategy. The EAR is fully compatible with OSPF and is based on the &#x201C;Shortest Path Tree (SPT) exportation&#x201D; mechanism, consisting in sharing the… (More)

In this paper we study the Optical Burst Switching (OBS) paradigm for the support of the TCP flows in an All Optical Network (AON). We analyze the TCP send rate, i.e. the amount of data sent per time unit, taking into account of: i) the burst assembly mechanism, called burstification process; ii) the burst loss events inside the OBS network. The goals of… (More)

An architecture is proposed for a Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) optical packet switch equipped with both limited range wavelength converters (LRWCs) and shared full range wavelength converters (FRWCs). The FRWCs are used to overcome the performance degradation in terms of Packet Loss Probability due to the use of LRWCs only. A probabilistic model is… (More)

— Coupling MPLS Traffic Engineering on top of a wavelength-routed WDM layer offers great flexibility to operators to allocate traffic demands in their networks. In this paper we consider the problem of off-line joint configuration at both packet and optical layers. We consider time-variant offered traffic, and assume that the operator has knowledge of the… (More)

This paper deals with the comparison between two resource reservation techniques, named Tell and Go (TG) and Tell and Wait (TW), when they are used in an All Optical Network for the support of high-speed IP traffic. This comparison study is motivated considering that the modes currently under investigation for the implementation of the next generation… (More)

This paper focuses on the energy consumption minimization problem of an optical transport network extending over a very wide area. In particular, the specific problem of power-aware routing and wavelength assignment (PA-RWA) is addressed considering a transparent multi-fiber optical network. An integer linear programming formulation is provided for the… (More)